Summary of Streamingdialogue: Prolonged Dialogue Learning Via Long Context Compression with Minimal Losses, by Jia-nan Li et al.
StreamingDialogue: Prolonged Dialogue Learning via Long Context Compression with Minimal Losses
by Jia-Nan Li, Quan Tu, Cunli Mao, Zhengtao Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Rui Yan
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research proposes StreamingDialogue, a method that compresses long dialogue history into “conversational attention sinks” (conv-attn sinks) with minimal losses. By aggregating information using these sinks, the approach reduces computational complexity quadratically with the number of sinks. This allows for handling more than 200K utterances, prolonging dialogue learning. The authors design two learning strategies: short-memory reconstruction (SMR) and long-memory reactivation (LMR) to minimize information losses during compression. StreamingDialogue outperforms strong baselines in dialogue tasks while achieving a 4x speedup and reducing memory usage by 18x compared to dense attention recomputation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making it easier for computers to understand long conversations. Right now, big language models struggle with this because they have to process too much information at once. The researchers found that certain parts of the conversation, called “End-of-Utterance” (EoU) tokens, can help gather and compress information. This allows the computer to focus on what’s really important and reduce the amount of processing needed. By using these EoU tokens, computers can learn about longer conversations without getting overwhelmed. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention
